...The Droit de Suite or the artists’ resale royalty is based on the notion of the "artist starving in the garret" under which it is held that an artist works in impoverished circumstances to produce art works, sells these for a low price but lives to see them become highly valued and for them to change hands at high prices but is unable to share in the capital gains so determined. Droit de Suite is a legal requirement giving the artist a legal right to share in the increase in the value of artworks created by the artist upon second and subsequent sale.

...The general Droit de Suite proposal is analysed first and then the proposal for an Australian Droit de Suite is explicitly analysed